Dodgers radio broadcasts move to KLAC

Team's TV future remains up in the air

The Los Angeles Dodgers will move their radio broadcasts from KABC 790 AM to KLAC 570 beginning next season as part of a three-year deal with Clear Channel Communications.

Move puts the team on an all-sports station for the first time in years. Before returning to current-events talker KABC in 2008 after an 11-year absence, the Dodgers were on news station KFWB 980 AM from 2003-07.

Though the team’s radio future was quietly resolved, its TV fate remains up in the air and integral to the ongoing legal battles over the Dodgers’ ownership. A four-day federal bankruptcy court hearing set to begin Oct. 31 will explore, among other issues, whether the Dodgers will be allowed to auction off their post-2013 TV rights despite Fox having exclusive negotiating rights to the Dodgers through November 2012. Fox sued the Dodgers Sept. 27 to stop the proposed early TV rights sale.